benchpress, squat 等等怎么说呢？因为对举重感兴趣，所以想学这些生词。

Bench press is 卧举/wo4 ju3. 卧 means lying still, 举 means lift.

Squat is 蹲/dun1.

Waist belt is 护腰/hu4 yao1.

The character 耐 nài in the podcast is used in many useful compounds.

• If something will stand up to repeated washing, it is 耐洗 。

• Something durable is 耐用. 

• "Food for thought" is 耐人寻味, literally, it can stand up to your efforts to find something interesting in it.

What are your favorite 耐 compounds?

the people i know in the gym say 推胸 for bench press.  i'm guessing you don't do a lot of it; a good thing by the way.  lol

It's interesting to apply that line of thinking to the phrase 不耐烦. It also works as well, but I think most of us just learn it without deconstructing it.

When I lived in China I was in a much smaller city than Shanghai. The gym I joined was very small and a friend and I were the only foreigners. I think most of the 私人教练 didn't think we could speak any Chinese so they left us alone!

推胸 and 卧举 are both ok. Thank you for letting poddies know. Yes, bench pressing is something I deliberately stay away from at the gym.